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901 days ago
I miss my writing classes...! Was going through boxes as I'm packing to move again and was Jonesing for some wordplay. My favourite writing is in form, and this is a Sestina. Challenging but fun. Find the pattern, I dare you. Contemplation, in Terms The equation mocks me from the pa- per i've arm-wrestled since dawn. So much for high education--my notion for study is up. My mind declining, I pull on sweats and lace my Adidas and commence a ritual sweat: the old high school track lends relief by the lap I like to run (when it's done and collapse is merited). A call from my sis (one of six) by pay- phone fills dis-illusion's cup: her old man's sweat- in' her again; he's left her frantically stranded. So much for eternal commitment. I'm drawn to her rescue with laced lips,as my "single's mentality"'s advice gets her back up (can't wait for welock's net to catch me up in it's faithful bliss)...We drive for ...
904 days ago
This is my niece Taylor. She fell today and hit her head so hard she stopped breathing. I had been there tending, and when my sister got home we were going to have lunch before I went to work. I was in the bathroom, and my sister started yelling "Help! Help!!!" I ran out and Taylor was limp as a rag and turning blue and just not breathing. I grabbed the phone and called the paramedics--maybe a knee jerk reaction but the panic on my sister's face and, well, Taylor not breathing, made me err on caution's side. Taylor finally started breathing but she would cry and then look like she was falling asleep then stop breathing again. They came and once they got there she started acting more normal, but was just sad and lethargic. They said she's probably ok but to take her in to the hospital. I'm on my way back over there to watch the boys so my sis can do that. Scary, scary.
907 days ago
This makes me so effing happy! I swear this is my creative writing professor from the U who would sit cross legged on her desk as she taught and mused and was freaking brilliant. Really, really really makes me want to go back to school. (And yes, everyone, I know this is Lisa Loeb and this was my favourite song she ever performed that I grew up on. Notice my use of comparison and contrast and a slant-simile to incorporate humor into the learning process today. Do not send me comments that this woman, most definitely, was not my teacher. I'll give you an "F" for the day and make you write sentences on the blackboard after class.)
